You can now COPY Apache Parquet and Apache ORC file formats from Amazon S3 to your Amazon Redshift cluster. Apache Parquet and ORC are columnar data formats that allow users to store their data more efficiently and cost-effectively. With this update, Redshift now supports COPY from six file formats: AVRO, CSV, JSON, Parquet, ORC and TXT. 

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu and Amazon Linux  now come pre-installed and fully configured with Horovod, a popular open source distributed training framework to scale TensorFlow training on multiple GPUs.

Application Load Balancers now support two new security policies: ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-2018-06 and ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-Ext-2018-06.

ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-2018-06 implements ciphers that ensure Forward Secrecy. Customers now have a policy that prevents out-of-band decryption if someone records the traffic and later compromises the server’s private key.

ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-Ext-2018-06 gives customers the option of only using the latest TLS 1.2 protocol with the same set of ciphers as available with default ELBSecurityPolicy-2016-08. With cipher parity, this new policy also provides an easy migration path to TLS 1.2-only from TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.0.

ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-2018-06 and ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-Ext-2018-06 are available today for all existing and new Application Load Balancers in all AWS public regions. You can get started using the AWS Management Console , AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) , or AWS SDK . To learn more, see HTTPS Listeners for Your Application Load Balancer .

Amazon Sumerian is now available in three new AWS regions: US West (Northern California), South America (Sao Paulo) and EU (Frankfurt). This expands the number of AWS regions where Amazon Sumerian is available to 9. Please visit the AWS region table for more information.

The Amazon Elastic Container Service Command Line Interface (Amazon ECS CLI) now supports the Docker Compose version 3 file format for deploying Docker containers to Amazon ECS.

This Quick Start builds a highly available user VPN solution on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 10-15 minutes. It deploys the Aviatrix Controller, Aviatrix gateways, authentication services, and log analytics. 

AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog, which lists over 4,200 software listings from popular software vendors, has released a streamlined website workflow. This new workflow makes it easy for you to see how you procure, configure, and fulfill Amazon Machine Image (AMI) software products.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now makes channel alerts available within the detail view of a running channel. This real-time information reduces the latency of alarms and enables you to remedy issues more quickly. These alerts also continue to be available via Amazon CloudWatch Events. For more information, visit the AWS Elemental MediaLive documentation pages .

TI has added two MCUs with integrated signal-chain elements and an extended operating temperature range to its MSP430 value line portfolio. New MSP430FR2355 ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) MCUs allow developers to reduce PCB size and BOM cost while meeting temperature requirements for sensing and measurement in applications such as smoke detectors, sensor transmitters and …

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